Hold Your Horses (First Choice album) explained

Hold Your Horses
Type:	Studio
Artist:	First Choice
Cover:	First choice hold your horses album.jpeg
Released:	1979
Recorded:	Musicland, Munich, Germany Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Genre:	Soul, Philadelphia soul, disco
Label:	Gold Mind
Producer:	Tom Moulton, Thor Baldursson, McKinley Jackson, Norman Harris
Prev Title:	Delusions
Prev Year:	1977
Next Title:	Breakaway
Next Year:	1980

Hold Your Horses is a studio album by American female vocal trio First Choice.^[1] It was released in 1979 on the Gold Mind label.

History

The album features the title track, which peaked at No. 73 on the Hot Soul Singles chart, and "Double Cross", which peaked at No. 60 on the same chart. The album was remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2013 by Big Break Records.

Personnel

• Rochelle Fleming, Annette Guest, Debbie Martin  - vocals

Musicland Studios

• Keith Forsey  - percussion, drums
• Les Hurdle  - bass
• Mats Björklund  - guitar
• Thor Baldursson  - keyboards
• Larry Washington  - congas
• Tom Moulton  - tambourine
• Munich Philharmonic  - strings
• Don Renaldo  - horns
• John Davis  - saxophone solo on "Let Me Down Easy

Sigma Sound Studios

• Keith Benson  - drums
• Jimmy Williams  - bass
• Norman Harris, Bobby Eli, T.J. Tindall  - guitars
• Eugene "Lambchops" Curry  - keyboards
• Larry Washington, James Walker  - congas
• Don Renaldo  - strings, horns

Charts

Chart (1979)	Peak ^[2]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	135
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	58

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US R&B	US Dan
1979	"Hold Your Horses"	73	-
	"Double Cross"	60	-
	"Love Thang"	-	52

Notes and References

1. News: Kathy's New Hit . Bracknell and Ascot Times . 25 Jan 1979 . 6.
2. Web site: US Charts > First Choice. Billboard. 25 January 2018.